Prof. Dr. Hakan Urey attent Photonics West Conference at San Francisco, California, United States, 13-18 February 2016, . Prof. Urey presented an ivited paper with the title “Wearable and augmented reality displays using MEMS and SLMs” on 16 February 2016. Uğur Aygün (PhD) also presented his paper with the title “Low-cost flatbed scanner label-free biosensor” on 13 February 2016.

On the First Patent Day our President Prof. Umran İnan presented plates to the inventors of the 48 patent applications filed until the end of 2014.

Our President emphasized the importance of patent protection of the university inventions in the opening speech. Research Project Development and Technology Transfer Director Ebru Tan shared our Intellectual Property and Licensing activities. Our guest speaker Prof. Hakan Ürey from Koç University noticed his patent applications, licensing activities of thermal camera and spectrometer inventions and, spinoff companies of Kuantag, Tarabios and Stop Parkinson. Our another guest speaker Prof. Nesrin Hasırcı from Middle East Technical University, Vice Director of Biomaten, shared her experiences regarding her investigations about biomaterial and tissue engineering from 80s to today and the difficulties of patenting them in early 90’s.

TEDxReset 2015 took place in TİM Show Center, on April 17-19 2015. Hakan Urey had given a talk on April 18 and his talk title was “We are proud with wearable technology”.
You can access his talk and the full program from the link below:http://www.tedxreset.com/programs/show/2015